Trauma : explorations in memory / edited, with introductions, by Cathy Caruth.

"Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discovering where and why...

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Other Authors: Caruth, Cathy, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • Education and crisis, or the vicissitudes of teaching / Shoshana Felman
  • Truth and testimony : the process and the struggle / Dori Laub
  • Trauma and aging : a thirty-year follow-up / Henry Krystal
  • Not outside the range : one feminist perspective on psychic trauma / Laura S. Brown
  • Freud : frontier concepts, Jewishness, and interpretation / Harold Bloom
  • An interview with Robert Jay Lifton / Cathy Caruth
  • The intrusive past : the flexibility of memory and the engraving of trauma / Bessel A. van der Kolk and Onno van der Hart
  • Notes on trauma and community / Kai Erikson
  • The obscenity of understanding : an evening with Claude Lanzmann / Claude Lanzmann
  • Concerning the accounts given by the residents of Hiroshima / Georges Bataille
  • Traumatic poetry : Charles Baudelaire and the shock of laughter / Kevin Newmark
  • "The AIDS crisis is not over" : a conversation with Gregg Bordowitz, Douglas Crimp, and Laura Pinsky / Cathy Caruth and Thomas Keenan.